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The Interactive Marketing Metrics You Needdetails
Forrester: Small Web Site Investments That Pay Offdetails
Overcoming Random Relevance: Using 1:1 Behavioral Targeting to Serve the Right Contentdetails
Ten Targeting Questions to Ask Your Best Marketersdetails

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If you are like most online marketers, many of your campaigns are less relevant and engaging than you had envisioned. With that in mind, Omniture has put together 10 simple tips that marketers can implement to dramatically impact relevance.

Search Marketing Research Bundle: A Reference Library to Build & Refine Your SEM Business Plandetails

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2009 will be the year many marketers are asked to do more with less. If you are in the position of deciding which tactics to focus on, this research bundle will help you understand what is working and where you should focus.

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Using Personas to Skyrocket Conversiondetails

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This white paper discusses the importance of personas and segmentation for today’s marketers. It reviews how persona creation can help marketers better communicate to their audience and increase conversion.

Do Your Landing Pages Smell Like Your Keywords?details

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Joel and Jason discuss how the current search landscape is changing. Search campaign costs are rising, and marketers are expected to be more accountable for their marketing spend. This guide discusses how to make search campaigns and landing pages work in concert to achieve greater relevance for consumers..

Becoming a Data Driven Marketerdetails

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Today’s metric-driven marketer can be overloaded by data. So what is the secret that allows some data managers to become effective analytical strategists? See the 5 strategies that separate the strategists from the managers.

Measure and Optimize Marketing's Contribution to Sales and Revenuedetails

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This guide provides industry best practices for measuring and optimizing marketing's impact on revenue for B2B companies. It covers three critical strategies needed to break down traditional walls so marketers can report on and analyze each stage of the marketing and sales cycle, from the first interaction to revenue.

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Business Services

How to Exponentially Increase Conversion from Searchdetails

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Joel and Jason discuss how the current search landscape is changing. Search campaign costs are rising, and marketers are expected to be more accountable for their marketing spend. This guide discusses how to make search campaigns and landing pages work in concert to achieve greater relevance for consumers.

Web 2.0 Retail Technologiesdetails

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The online retail is marketplace maturing, so fewer new customers will be entering the marketplace. Web 2.0 technologies present new ways to poach and retain customers.

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Retail

Forrester: Optimizing the Web 2.0 User Experiencedetails

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Much of the buzz about Web 2.0 is around the proliferation of rich Internet applications (RIAs), which promise numerous user experience benefits. But building a Web application using fancy technology doesn’t ensure a better user experience. As firms rush to incorporate RIAs into their site designs, they should create a solid understanding of users’ needs and implement structured testing techniques to understand and validate appropriate use and design of RIAs.

Forrester: The Marketing Technology Backbonedetails

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Forrester’s Independent Research Report on “The Marketing Technology Backbone” is very relevant in today’s online environment stating that marketers are struggling to measure new consumer behaviors, integrate interactive marketing channels/applications, and are pressured to measure and improve marketing ROI.

Industry Guide: Financial Servicesdetails

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The Omniture experts have put together a best practice guide for financial service web sites to better understand how web analytics can improve marketing effectiveness.

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Financial Services

Industry Guide: Lead Generation & B2Bdetails

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The Omniture experts have put together a best practice guide for lead generation and B2B web sites to better understand how web analytics can improve marketing effectiveness.

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Business Services

Industry Guide: Mediadetails

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The Omniture experts have put together a best practice guide for media and content web sites to better understand how web analytics can improve marketing effectiveness.

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Media

Industry Guide: Traveldetails

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The Omniture experts have put together a best practice guide for travel web sites to better understand how web analytics can improve marketing effectiveness.

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Travel & Hospitality

Overcoming the Challenges of B2B Marketingdetails

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B-to-B marketers traditionally focus on improving metrics like return on investment (ROI), cost per lead, or cost per sale. With increasing pressure to prove the value of marketing activities, it is crucial to understand the trade-offs between different web marketing strategies.

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Business Services

Top 10 Optimization Tricks to Boost Holiday Salesdetails

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Don’t miss this chance to learn more about how you can optimize your online marketing campaigns for increased revenue this holiday season—across all channels, from paid search to email.

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Retail

Industry Guide: Retail & Commerce Sitesdetails

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The Omniture experts have put together a best practice guide for retail and commerce web sites to better understand how web analytics can improve marketing effectiveness.

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Retail

Emailvision, providing a new level of profitability with Campaign Commander and Genesisdetails

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Emailvision, growing “on demand” email marketing software provider on the European market, will explain their lecture of market evolution, and the improvements of their platform to accordingly provide marketers with high-value global solution. Email marketing is getting more and more mature, requiring sophisticated techniques and tools to generate high profitability. As a pure player, Emailvision is offering the benefits of the integration between Omniture analytic platform with high performance email marketing software and platform, Campaign Commander. This combination allows sharp tracking, instant accurate targeting, high reactivity, in a word all necessary elements to get the best productivity and revenue from email marketing campaigns. Division of world leader Avid Technology, Pinnacle Systems chose to take all the benefits from the successful partnership between Omniture and Emailvision. Their Case Study will show their target and the way they will reach it. It will also illustrate how sophisticated techniques can improve drastically deliverability and impact of email marketing channel.

5 Essential Steps to Effective Web Measurementdetails

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With nearly unlimited amounts of data available from your Web site, Web analytics can seem complex and overwhelming. But it doesn’t have to be. By following the five fundamental steps in this download, you can ensure a successful Web analytics program, start to measure success accurately, and make better online marketing decisions.

Online Marketer's Segmentation Guidedetails

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Today’s customers expect—no, they demand relevancy. If what you’re trying to communicate doesn’t connect with them and their issues in a split second, you’ve lost them. Knowing who your customers are and what they need is a requirement to compete in today’s competitive online world. Anticipating what they want and providing value at the right time, place and format is what is needed to win...

7 Steps to Increasing Website Conversiondetails

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In general, most organizations spend more time and money promoting their websites through acquisition channels such as search or affiliate marketing than they do optimizing existing conversion rates.

7 Advanced Steps to Effective Search Engine Marketingdetails

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The 7 Steps Found within This Guide Will Assist You to Achieve Your Objectives with Balance and Precision. Learn how to: • Generate more response volume (sales, customers, orders, leads, traffic) • Do it more cost effectively • Make the company look good (in other words …build the brand